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Come On Join That Number
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: Selah Jubilee Singers 1941
CATEGORY: Traditional and Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: probably 1800s; 1940s
RECORDING INFO: Come On Join That Number
Selah Jubilee Singers 1941
OTHER NAMES: "Coming Down From God"
RELATED TO: "Coming Down From God"
SOURCES:
NOTES: "Come On Join That Number" is a traditional spiritual from the Selah Jubilee Singers 1941. It's an early version of the now bluegrass gospel song titled, "Coming Down From God." Selah Jubilee Singers version has only one verse and more could be written and added.
The song appears in Negro Songs from Georgia by Melinger Henry published in the
Journal of American folklore, Volume 44 in 1931:
*Don't you want to be in that number that no man can number?
Don't you want to be in that number that no man can number?
Don't you want to be in that number that no man can number?
Come on join that number.
*I don't have access to complete lyrics- the last line is a guess.
"Coming Down From God" from Molly O'Day and her husband Lynn Davis is certainly the same traditional song adapted or collected by them.
Come On Join That Number- Selah Jubilee Singers 1941
Oh don't you want to join that number that no man can number?
Don't you want to join that number that no man can number?
Don't you want to join that number that no man can number?
Come on join that number.
Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
I just joined that number that no man can number
I just joined that number that no man can number
I just joined that number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
VERSE: Well you read in the bible you understand
Sampson was the strongest man
He reached right down in ancient times
He killed ten thousand Phillistines.
Sampson joined that number that no man can number
Sampson joined that number that no man can number
Sampson joined that number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
That Holy righteous number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
Moses joined that number that no man can number
Moses joined that number that no man can number
Moses joined that number that no man can number
Come on and join that number in heaven.
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